American Political Science Review
Member of APSR Editorial Team (2020-2023)
Laurel Weldon was a member of the group of twelve women editing the American Political Science Review, working on the transition team in 2019, and editing the journal from 2020-2023. For more about the team and its vision see below.
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In August 2019, the APSA announced the incoming editorial team for the APSR (pictured at left except Celeste Montoya). The Statement read: "The American Political Science Association is delighted to announce a new editorial team to lead the American Political Science Review (APSR), starting June 1, 2020. The APSA Council selected a team co-led by twelve distinguished political scientists: Sharon Wright Austin, University of Florida, Michelle L. Dion, McMaster University, Lisa García Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley, Clarissa Rile Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis, Kelly M. Kadera, University of Iowa, Julie Novkov, University at Albany, SUNY, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Purdue University, Dara Strolovitch, Princeton University, Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Denise M. Walsh, University of Virginia, S. Laurel Weldon, Simon Fraser University, and Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University."
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Statement from the Editors Upon Taking Up the APSR
We are honored to have been selected as the American Political Science Review’s new editorial team. We thank the APSA Council and the selection committee for their confidence in our team and for their support for our vision. In entrusting the editorship of the association’s flagship journal to our diverse and all-woman team, the Council is demonstrating its commitment to promoting a wider range of voices and scholarship in the journal and the discipline.
Under the leadership of Thomas König and the other members of the current editorial team, the American Political Science Review has maintained its reputation as one of the discipline’s leading journals. König and his team have published cutting-edge research about substantive political issues, questions, and problems, with a particular commitment to globalizing the content, readership, and reach of the journal.
Our team will continue—and expand upon—this trajectory. We aim to maintain and improve the quality and integrity of the American Political Science Association’s flagship journal while broadening its readership, relevance, and contributor pool. To do so, we intend to publish problem-driven scholarship that is well-conceptualized, ethically-designed, and well-executed; research on topics and by scholars the discipline has been slow to engage; and work that uses a range of methods and approaches to address both timely and timeless questions about power and governance that are central to the study of politics everywhere.
Under the leadership of Thomas König and the other members of the current editorial team, the American Political Science Review has maintained its reputation as one of the discipline’s leading journals. König and his team have published cutting-edge research about substantive political issues, questions, and problems, with a particular commitment to globalizing the content, readership, and reach of the journal.
Our team will continue—and expand upon—this trajectory. We aim to maintain and improve the quality and integrity of the American Political Science Association’s flagship journal while broadening its readership, relevance, and contributor pool. To do so, we intend to publish problem-driven scholarship that is well-conceptualized, ethically-designed, and well-executed; research on topics and by scholars the discipline has been slow to engage; and work that uses a range of methods and approaches to address both timely and timeless questions about power and governance that are central to the study of politics everywhere.